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You wrote: "More claimed Tyndale erred in translating using love, repent, congregation and elder. More also knew enough Greek to know that Tyndale was right. Thus, More lied." False. More was fluent in Greek. He could speak it, read it and write it. He was far from the only person who criticized Tyndale's translation. "The KJV is flawed, because King James had the translators support church structure over the truth, noting, “No bishop, no king”. Like More, King James cared more for power than truth." No, the KJV is flawed because the translators had fewer old mss. to use. The mss. they relied on were sometimes faulty. We'll soon see one error plastered all over the place for Christmas: Luke 2:14, KJV Bible: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." Anyone who looks at the Greek of the vast majority of mss. knows that is not the proper translation. You, through a Protestant source, claimed: "The laws declared the English translation of the Bible to be illegal." False. This is what Arundel wrote (please not the comments in bold): Item, It is a dangerous thing, as witnesseth blessed St. Jerome, to translate the text of the holy Scripture out of the tongue into another; for in the translation the same sense is not always easily kept, as the same St. Jerome confesseth, that although he were inspired, yet oftentimes in this he erred: we therefore decree and ordain, that no man, hereafter, by his own authority translate any text of the Scripture into English or any other tongue, by way of a book, libel, or treatise; and that no man read any such book, libel or treatise, now lately set forth in the time of John Wickhiff, or since, or hereafter to be set forth, in part or in whole, privily or apertly, upon pain of greater excommunication, until the said translation be allowed by the ordinary of the place, or, if the case so require, by the council provincial. He that shall do contrary to this, shall likewise be punished as a favourer of error and heresy. Thus, your source is lying. All someone had to do was not do it on his own authority and receive approval for it. It was not illegal to produce an English translation, therefore.

It was not strictly illegal, but no English translation gained approval for transmission to the commoners. Tyndale asked for permission, and was denied. Since he refused to leave the common man ignorant of the scripture, he became guilty of 'heresy' by translating a very accurate New Testament and publishing it. That the demand was there was proven by the many thousands sold, although possession of it was heresy.

Odd, isn't it, that the Catholic Church failed where Luther and Tyndale succeeded? The Catholic Church WANTED the common man to know scripture, but just couldn't quite make it happen, while Luther and Tyndale did. Amazing what a good heretic can do, isn't it?